10 comments on “Another UK meat scandal: ‘Tens of thousands of diseased cattle sold for human consumption by Defra’”

From wire services: “The raw meat, from around 28,000 diseased animals a year, is banned by most supermarkets and burger chains, The Sunday Times reported.

Tesco, for example, rejects it because of “public-health concerns surrounding the issue of bTB and its risk to consumers”.

But it is being sold to some caterers and food processors, and finding its way into schools, hospitals and the military, or being processed into products such as pies and pasties, the newspaper said.

A Defra spokeswoman said: “All meat from cattle slaughtered due to bovine TB must undergo rigorous food safety checks before it can be passed fit for consumption.

“The Food Standards Agency has confirmed there are no known cases where TB has been transmitted through eating meat and the risk of infection from eating meat, even if raw or undercooked, remains extremely low.”

The meat is sold with no warning to processors or consumers that it comes from bTB infected cattle.

Asked whether the public should know whether or not the meat they are buying originated from an infected cow, a spokeswoman for the Food Standards Agency said: “The public do not need to know anything more about that meat other than it is fit for human consumption.”

If an inspection of a carcass reveals tuberculous lesions in more than one organ or region it is declared unfit for human consumption and destroyed, she explained.

But if only the lymph nodes in one organ or part of the carcass is infected, then that area is removed and the rest is considered safe to enter the food chain.

She added: “Cooking this meat would be an additional safety step, but we would emphasise the risk even before cooking is very low.”

The Sunday Times reported that Defra’s reassurances contrasted with experts’ warnings who have said rising levels of bTB in cattle are becoming a serious threat to human health.”

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There is no scandal here.If Defra dumped 10000 tonnes of safe meat to appease a few French.The only nation around here stupid enough to eat raw mince then that would be a scandal.Love the show.Bye y,all

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Industrial food is purposely designed to keep it’s victims perpetually ill. The Pharmaceutical Industry make $Trillions out a of dumbed-down moronic population. The obesity crisis, is a direct result of the lack of essential nutrients in Supermarket garbage food. People have to eat more! and that sure makes the Supermarket loads and loads of money! So they encourage junk food sales. The god of money has always demanded human sacrifice by the millions!

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